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Poster: | ringolevio | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 3:55am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | SpinnerChick | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 4:34am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
A good morning to all
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Poster: | boltman | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 6:18am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
If you are looking for stuff not found here might want to browse eTree or Lossless Legs, if you can get an account.
Welcome, I'm a Lurker so this may be one of the few times you hear from me.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:01am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | vapors | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 7:11am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 7:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | unclejohn52 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:01am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
There is so much material here - I mostly just stream it rather than DL it.
Now for the million-dollar question - is there a Mac equivalent to Trader's Little Helper? What does a Mac user do with Flac files ? Will I really hear a difference on an iPod with decent headphones?
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:18am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact
Of course you will now have a file that is 10x larger than the 192 mbps VBR mp3 you are probably using on the ipod now. If you add the .aiff to itunes you can further convert them to apple lossless (ALAC). This is the apple equivalent of FLAC and will compress the files to about half the size of the .aiff files.
Can you hear a difference from .mp3s on an ipod? I think that depends on your ears and headphones. I think i can between a 192 mbps VBR and lossless however if i create 320 mbps .mp3 files i really can't hear a difference. This seems to vary from individual to individual so you pretty much have to figure it out for yourself. Hey, a least it is a fun exercise.
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Poster: | unclejohn52 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 11:35am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
Current settings (iTunes prefs) for CD import are AAC Encoder. Following up on your post - import to iTunes first, or change this pref to ALAC before import of the converted aiff's?
Also this brings up a more general question - how does everyone here listen to all this digital music? Is everyone burning disks of their dl's so they can be played on the home stereo or car stereo? (The Apple solution would be to get the Airport and stream this digitally to the home stereo.) I'm currently doing 99% of my listening at the computer (Logitech THX with a big sub-woofer) or iPod, since I never got around to replacing the analog home stereo. Love to hear about everyone's sound system.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 11:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
As for keeping files, if i convert to ALAC and/or mp3 i chuck the AIFF files since they are the biggest. You can burn discs from ALAC just fine. I try to keep the FLACs as they are good for trading purposes. Of course this means more LaCie 2TB external disc drives and the risk of divorce.
How do i listen? ipod (mp3 and alac), iphone (aac to save space), computer hooked to speakers at work or home. For commercial releases i rip them for all of these however I also listen to those CDs in my truck. There was that one time i had to hear how the 24 bit version of the latest Charlie Miller transfer of 4-29-71 sounded asap but had to run some errands and go to work so i plugged my notebook computer into the aux of my pickup truck. Sounded great especially the best H2H ever, but was a little nervous of having to hit the brakes.
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Poster: | boltman | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:15am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:02am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 1:32pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
;)
JK, of course; was getting tiresome.
But I do have a question: has the time come when it is no longer necessary to warn fair ladies from the clutches of over-attentive aged Tell?
The fact that no one mentioned this (historically speaking) requisite for any and all newbies of the XX variety, is a pleasant surprise.
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 1:38pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
Yes the lists are boring to me, besides i can't figure out how they left you off that top 10 genius one. I guess that makes two of us........
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 15, 2011 8:13pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
And if you can recall what that all is about, well, you've got a good memory my friend!
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Poster: | elbow1126 | Date: | Jan 16, 2011 6:09am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Help a tech-challenged sister out! |
http://www.archive.org/post/342733/and-now-for-something-completely-dead-related-no-really